I've been really terrible for the last 3 days. Ate lots of junk food and crap stuff and didnt follow my eating plan. Plus yesterday was my day off from my work out so I didn't exercise either and now I'm too terrified to step on the scale..especially since I was doing really well for the last 2 weeks.

On top of that I've hurt my knee and didnt do my workout this morning. I might just squeeze in the routine after work tonight because I feel so terrible about the foods I've ate and also because if I take today off it will mess up my schedule.

I'm thinking maybe I'll buy a big calendar and plan out my meals and calories to keep me on track...

Putting a call out to some other runners to brainstorm how bad this potentially really is and how much I need to scale back. I'm really upset right now. I'm going to the running store tonight to see if my shoes are dying... since they are more minimalist shoes they don't last as long as regular running shoes. I'm tempted to be like "put me back in a regular shoe."

The most important thing for me is simply to be well-nourished, rested and on top of stress and I find keeping in shape effortless. Mess up any of these three things and the chub comes piling on, even if I'm racing to 100 burpees, clean and jerking 32 kg kettlebells, running vast distances etc.

I think I am naturally a very podgy person so I make sure I eat no packaged foods whatsoever, sleep a minimum of 8 hours and keep stress at bay as much as possible. 10 minutes here and there of resistance training in addition to dog-walking/mountain-biking with them keeps me in better cosmetic shape than when I was living in the gym but doing the other stuff all wrong.